“It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite”

“Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.”

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ”

“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further”

“That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sighs into eternity”

“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish”